Remember Jessica Pilot’s “Secrets of a Hipster Hooker” article in Radar a few years ago? There was quite a bit of outrage in the sex worker community over that, in the words of one blogger, “steaming pile of horseshit.” Jenny DeMilo curated quite a few of the reactions in this post. It’s been nearly three… Continue reading Being A Fake Sex Worker Surprisingly Not Great For Young Woman’s Writing Career
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Sweatpants Boner Man, Widemouth Bass Man, and Other People Not to Be at the Strip Club
Paul Carr has been writing a series of reports from Las Vegas for the Huffington Post with his sobriety as the hook—what’s it like to be in Vegas sober, etc. His guide for part of the trip has been Ruth Fowler, fellow sober person, former stripper and author of the memoir No Man’s Land. For… Continue reading Sweatpants Boner Man, Widemouth Bass Man, and Other People Not to Be at the Strip Club
Sugarbabe: Kat Commiserates With A Friend
I was introduced to Sugarbabe by my friend Charlotte who received the book from a client. I was able to track down one used copy at Powell’s after a few weeks of keeping an eye on the sex worker section. It was obvious from a dog-eared page toward the beginning of the book and the… Continue reading Sugarbabe: Kat Commiserates With A Friend
This Week In Tourist Reports
One of these tourist reports typically pops up in my Google alerts every week. Someone ventures inside a strip club for the first time and shares his/her tale with the world as if he/she is Neil Armstrong. Last week it was an insecure lesbian who felt threatened when a stripper at Jumbo’s talked to her… Continue reading This Week In Tourist Reports